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I tried this one before and gave up, but I'm stubborn and want to fix this issue and use Arch on my laptop. What's happening is when I start Cinnamon through lightdm, it doesn't display correctly, as in it's not handling the screens properly. If I use the function key to cycle through the display options of the laptop, I can eventually get it to show the desktop correctly. The problem is, the next time I start the laptop I have to repeat the process, and occasionally it will break Cinnamon completely because it gets stuck trying to load the default theme. Other distros I've tried don't have this problem, they always display correctly. I followed the guide on setting up optimus on the wiki. I'm fairly confident that it's because both the VGA-0 and LVDS-1 displays are active, but I can't figure out how to just display to one of them. When I use another distro and Cinnamon, only LVDS-1 display is active. Interestingly, when I run startx, it display correctly. Furthermore, when I use xfce instead of Cinnamon, it still has both displays active, but at least it displays correctly without having to fiddle around with switch displays via the keyboard. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Relevant config files and stuff:
UPDATE: It seems it displays fine when I launch Cinnamon in software rendering mode. I guess it's a configuration issue or something within cinnamon
output from xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1366 x 768, maximum 16384 x 16384
VGA-0 connected 1024x768+332+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm panning 1366x768+0+0
1024x768 60.00*+
800x600 72.19 60.32 56.25
640x480 59.94
512x384 60.00
400x300 72.19
320x240 60.05
LVDS-1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
1366x768 60.03*+
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
700x525 59.98
640x512 60.02
640x480 60.00 59.94
512x384 60.00
400x300 60.32 56.34
320x240 60.05
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1024x768 (0x48) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz
v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.00Hz
800x600 (0x4d) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.88KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.32Hz
800x600 (0x4e) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.16KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.25Hz
640x480 (0x52) 25.175MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz
v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.94Hz
512x384 (0x53) 32.500MHz -HSync -VSync DoubleScan
h: width 512 start 524 end 592 total 672 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz
v: height 384 start 385 end 388 total 403 clock 60.00Hz
320x240 (0x56) 12.587MHz -HSync -VSync DoubleScan
h: width 320 start 328 end 376 total 400 skew 0 clock 31.47KHz
v: height 240 start 245 end 246 total 262 clock 60.05Hz/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Module"
Load "modesetting"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection/etc/lightdm/display_setup.sh (properly configured to load in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --autoLast edited by Cain05 (2016-10-18 16:10:24)
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